Maxim: Focus! Founders have to ruthlessly protect their focus because nothing is more valuable than quick feedback loops on learning, execution, launching and feedback. He told an incredible story of an entrepreneur in Europe who was invited to go meet Dan Ek, founder of Spotify.
Maxim: Focus! Founders have to ruthlessly protect their focus because nothing is more valuable than quick feedback loops on learning, execution, launching and feedback. He told an incredible story of an entrepreneur in Europe who was invited to go meet Dan Ek, founder of Spotify.
Focus, as Steve Jobs said, is about saying no.
The only dangerous competitors are focused ones.
Ergo there are things that even the most dangerous competitors say no to, and it would be worth thinking explicitly about what those are.
Good CEOs know that they should double down on the projects that are working and put more people, resources, and attention on those rather than get every single project to the point of “not failing.”
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
On the importance of a focused ICP: "We allowed our ICP to fray, replaced by a focus on a competitor. In our fight to prove that we could win against Alteryx, we over-rotated on any customer that might be interested in switching or considering alternatives. While being responsive to customers sounds good, being responsive to any customer creates a ... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • Tweet
Startups are about focusing and executing on a single, scalable idea rather than jumping on every good one which crosses your desk.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Peter Thiel: Extreme focus is a superpower “Don’t divide your attention. Focusing on one thing yields increasing returns for each unit of effort.At a micro level, an extra hour of focus on the current project has a much higher return than an hour on something new, or worse, 5 minutes each on 12 new things. Before you ever do something new, you shou... See more
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“We try to focus and do very few things well. And focussing is hard because focussing doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ it means saying ‘no’. So we decide not to do a lot of things so we can focus on a handful of things and do them very well”. - Steve Jobs